Archive for October, 2010

BMW unscripted: Sabine Schmitz

Everyone’s favourite taxi driver, Sabine Schmitz, is featured here in unscripted, a new promo series from BMW. “No script, just real people,” says the marketing blurb. This episode with Sabine gives a great, albeit brief, look at her history with BMW and the Nürburgring Nordschleife. For more on Sabine take a trip down memory lane [...]

Marcel Tiemann continues to recover well

Further good news about the health and recovery of Marcel Tiemann was received earlier today in the above tweet made by UK motoring journalist Chris Harris. Tiemann suffered severe injuries in May after an accident at Imola while racing in a Phoenix Racing Audi R8 LMS. According to the most recent entry on Marcel’s official [...]

Raeder Motorsport Audi TT RS makes winning debut

Last weekend this radical looking Audi TT RS, prepared by Raeder Motorsport, made its race debut during the VLN round held at the Nürburgring. It was entered in the SP 4T class and a trouble-free run saw it win the class, while achieving eighth place outright. A brief statement has been released bu Audi Motorsport: [...]

The Australian “green hell”

It’s pretty fair to say that you cannot compare any racetrack with the famed Nürburgring Nordschleife. But here in Australia, Mount Panorama in Bathurst is the closest we have to anything like the Ring. The Bathurst circuit is only 6.2km long and a fair portion of the track consists of undulating straights. However, the climb [...]